WASHINGTON — President Trump opened his State of the Union address on Tuesday night with a forceful defense of his administration’s record, casting his first year back in office as a period of renewed economic growth and reinvigorated police forces that have made America the “hottest country anywhere in the world.”

“Our country is ...Read more

The U.S. military has boarded another sanctioned tanker with links to Venezuela after chasing it into the Indian Ocean, as the Trump administration continues to enforce a maritime blockade against the Latin American nation.

The latest operation marks the third vessel halted in the region by U.S. forces and the tenth overall since December, ...Read more

The cold weather didn’t delay SpaceX’s plans to launch another Starlink mission Tuesday, but did delay NASA’s plans to roll back the Artemis II rocket from the launch pad.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 29 of its internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:04 p.m. Eastern time.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump offered a defiant defense of his policies and economic record, declaring the nation is “back bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before” in Tuesday’s State of the Union address.

The president staged his version of a pep rally for a beleaguered nation, celebrating athletic victories and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The United States abstained from a U.N. vote supporting a lasting peace in Ukraine, prompting criticism from President Donald Trump’s former Ukraine envoy.

“A UN vote on a lasting peace in Ukraine and we abstained. Go figure,” Keith Kellogg, who served as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia last year, wrote in a social media...Read more

The Justice Department allegedly withheld dozens of files related to Jeffrey Epstein that included an FBI investigation into claims of abuse against President Trump, according to a new report.

Trump was accused of sexually assaulting a teen girl in the 1980s, and the FBI investigated those claims and interviewed the alleged victim, NPR reported...Read more

RANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky state lawmakers issued subpoenas to the Beshear administration for information they deemed necessary for crafting the next two-year state budget.

According to a press release from the House Majority Caucus, subpoenas were issued by the co-chairs of the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee to the Kentucky...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. courts are foiling efforts by the Trump administration to keep under wraps information about the Department of Government Efficiency and the role that Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, played in it during his whirlwind stint with the White House last year.

A New York federal judge last week forced the government to ...Read more

There have been no documented instances of federal immigration enforcement taking place on Washington’s public college campuses.

Yet across the state, college leaders say they are actively preparing for the possibility. They are updating policies, retraining staff and reinforcing legal boundaries as student anxiety grows in response to ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore County bill that would bar law enforcement officers from wearing masks and require visible identification is drawing legal questions and accusations of political pandering.

Councilman Izzy Patoka, a Pikesville Democrat running for county executive, introduced the legislation last week, citing concerns about U.S. ...Read more

The Pentagon threatened to invoke a Cold War-era law to compel Anthropic PBC to allow the U.S. military to use the artificial intelligence startup’s technology if the company failed to comply with the government’s terms by Friday, according to people familiar with the matter.

During a meeting Tuesday between Chief Executive Officer Dario ...Read more

A five-day series of protests, training and events organized by those opposed to aggressive ICE operations kicks off Wednesday in the Twin Cities and is expected to draw participants from across the country eager to learn strategies for resisting what organizers describe as a federal occupation.

“Bring the Heat, Melt the ICE Week of Action”...Read more

It’s not unusual before the spring planting season to see tanker trucks lurching across eastern South Carolina, on their way to deposit a slurry of industrial and municipal waste on farmland.

The sludge these tankers carry, which often comes from North Carolina chicken processing plants, is supposed to enrich the soil so crops can grow. But ...Read more

Amid a devastating energy and humanitarian crisis in Cuba worsened by U.S. oil supply restrictions, the Trump administration is planning to expand ability of the island’s private sector to import U.S. fuel.

“We want to open the spigot of U.S. fuel exports to Cuba, so long as the ultimate beneficiary is the private sector,” a source with ...Read more

Boycotts. Prebuttals. Rebuttals. Historic guests.

California members of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives approach to President Donald Trump's state of the union address Tuesday night are as varied as their politics and their districts.

Prior to the speech, Sen. Adam Schiff described Trump as an out-of-control and corrupt ...Read more

Five people alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that federal immigration agents attacked or arrested them in North Carolina last year without warrants or probable cause.

Department of Homeland Security agents arrested the plaintiffs “without a warrant and without probable cause to believe they were removable or any evaluation that they were likely ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration on Tuesday sued the University of California, alleging that UCLA administrators have "routinely ignored" and "failed to report" employee complaints of antisemitism since the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's war in Gaza spurred a surge in pro-Palestinian campus activism.

The Department of Justice ...Read more

BOSTON — Students are set to return to class in Boston after an extended February school vacation, thanks to the Blizzard of ’26 that dumped 17 inches of snow in the city and canceled two days of class.

Mayor Michelle Wu has announced that Boston Public Schools and central offices will reopen on Wednesday, while scores of other districts ...Read more

NEW YORK — Only 63.3% of students showed up at school Tuesday, as Mayor Mamdani took heat for reopening the schools while New Yorkers were still digging themselves out of a historic blizzard.

That’s down from an average daily attendance rate of 89.8% last school year, according to the mayor’s annual management report.

“I know that ...Read more